Army and Navy Review 1915 Panama-California Edition - Balboa Park

South Dakota, held on the eve of the debarkation of the troops at San
Diego harbor. To the chagrin of the crew, the marines won three of the
four races, thus demonstrating once more the versatility of the Corps that
finds itself at home, alike on land or on sea, and where’er winds rise or
waters roll, as well beneath the equatorial sun as in the immeasurable
Arctic wastes.
On July 10, 1914, the regiment was assembled on North Island, and
established itself at Camp Howard of blessed memory. Now began the
halcyon days of its history, as under its own commander, and its own
colors it commenced its independent existence.
Tenting on the old camp ground, in a land, where the sun of summer
shines always, lighting up the sparkling waters of the rolling Pacific,
warming the orange groves in the valleys, and beaming on the distant
mountain sides, where the balmy zephyr sweeping o’er the western wave,
brings haunting memories of sea-washed isles; where the whispering eucalyptus
breathes a sighing appoggiatura to the silvery mission bells that recall
the days of caballero and conquistador, we find at the termination of
its odyssey, the Fourth Regiment—may its colors never be furled!
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Admiral Cameron McRae Winslow Inspecting Marines at Exposition, Sept. 23, 1915.
L eft to Right, Lieut. Anthony James, Admiral Winslow, Major Melville Shaw, Col. J.
H. Pendleton and Capt. C. H. Lyman.